A compilation of his fantasy tales, Food for Demons, was published by Fantasy House as chapbook #2 in Ken Kreuger’s Fantasy Reader series in 1975 — with brief encomiums by ay some of Evans’ friends and colleagues including Ray Bradbury, A. E. van Vogt, and E. E. Smith. The Big Heart Award, founded by Forrest J. Ackerman to honor outstanding service and generosity to the SF field and for “typifying the spirit of SF writer E. Everett Evans” was named in his honor for many years. He was not a very good writer and was named one of the Turgid Triplets. On the other hand, Evans's juvenile novel, The Planet Mappers (1955), won the Boys' Clubs of America annual award for “most enjoyable book.”

His professional works included the novels Man of Many Minds (1953), The Planet Mappers (1955), Alien Minds (1955), and the posthumously-published collaboration with E. E. SmithMasters of Space (1976).